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- the present description generally relates to electronic circuits and, more particularly, to electronic devices incorporating a Near Field Communication (NFC) circuit.
- NFC Near Field Communication
- an NFC device communicates only in card mode or the same NFC device can operate in card mode or in reader mode (for example in the case of a near-field communication between two mobile phones).
- a device When operating in reader mode, a device generates a radiofrequency electromagnetic field to be picked up by range devices (operating in map mode).
- an NFC device When operating in card mode, an NFC device captures a radiofrequency electromagnetic field generated by a device operating in reader mode.
- Some devices Essentially so-called devices with passive load modulation) take the energy necessary for their operation of the radiated field by a reader within range of which they are and retromodulate the field of the terminal.
- Other (active charge modulating) devices have their own power source in order to be able to transmit a signal to respond to the reader synchronously with it.
- the present disclosure is more particularly directed to an NFC controller with active modulation.
- An NFC device equipped with such a controller has one or more antennas.
- One embodiment overcomes all or some of the disadvantages of conventional NFC devices.
- One embodiment provides an NFC controller adapted to two antennas.
- One embodiment proposes a solution adapted to an NFC device capable of operating in card mode and in reader mode.
- One embodiment provides an amplification circuit comprising two groups of the same number of amplifiers, amplifier outputs of a first group being interconnected to a first terminal, amplifier outputs of a second group being divided into two subsets respectively interconnected at second and third terminals.
- each group of amplifiers is identical.
- the amplifiers of the same group are of different powers.
- the two subsets of amplifiers of the second group are of different powers.
- the amplifiers of the first group are controllable together, the amplifiers of the two subsets of the second group being controllable. together, can be controlled separately, one of the subassemblies then being controlled with the first group of amplifiers.
- each amplifier is class D.
- An embodiment provides an NFC controller having at least one amplification circuit.
- the controller comprises two outputs, in which the ratio between the respective powers provided by the two outputs is 1 if the second and third terminals of the amplification circuit are interconnected and is different from 1 if the first and third terminals of the amplification circuit are interconnected and is different from 1 if the first and third second terminals of the amplification circuit are interconnected.
- One embodiment provides an NFC transceiver circuit comprising a controller.
- the second and third terminals of the amplification circuit are interconnected.
- the first and second terminals of the amplification circuit are interconnected.
- One embodiment provides an NFC device comprising at least one NFC transceiver circuit.
- the figure 1 is a very schematic and block-like representation of an example of a near-field communication system of the type to which embodiments that will be described will be applied.
- Two devices NFC 1 (DEV1) and 2 (DEV2) are capable of communicating by electromagnetic coupling in the near field. According to the applications, for one communication, one of the devices operates in said reader mode while the other operates in said card mode, or both devices communicate in peer-to-peer (P2P) mode.
- Each device comprises various electronic circuits for generating a radiofrequency signal emitted using one or more antennas. The radiofrequency field generated by one of the devices is picked up by the other device that is in range and which also has one or more antennas.
- each device 1 or 2 can also, in reader, communicate with a card with passive charge modulation (resistive or capacitive retro modulation).
- An NFC device comprises one or more oscillating circuits each consisting of an antenna (inductive element) and a capacitive element for sensing or emitting an electromagnetic field.
- the oscillating circuit (s) are excited by a radio frequency signal produced by electronic circuits (NFC controller) of the device for generating a field and modulating this field as a function of the information to be transmitted.
- the NFC controller extracts from the electromagnetic field that it receives and which comes from a reader the frequency of the carrier (typically 13.56 MHz) and the data transmitted by the reader, and transmits synchronously data in active load modulation to this reader, emitting a synchronized signal with that of the player and modulating it to the rhythm of a subcarrier.
- NFC controllers are implemented as integrated circuits that generate radio frequency signals in differential mode and are adapted to receive differential radio frequency signals.
- the disclosed embodiments provide a novel NFC controller approach that is compatible with different oscillating circuit architectures, without the need for a balun or antenna switches and separators.
- an NFC controller that can be mounted in a device using the same differential antenna (attacked by a differential transmission signal and receiving a differential signal in reception) in drive mode and in card mode, or in a device using two antennas different, one for the card mode and the other for the reader mode (each attacked in transmission by a non-differential signal and receiving a non-differential signal in reception).
- the figure 2 is very schematically and in block form, an embodiment of an NFC controller 3 (NFCC).
- NFCC NFC controller 3
- the controller 3 comprises various digital processing circuits 32 (CORE) intended to receive information to transmit from other circuits of the device and to transmit to these other circuits information from other devices.
- the controller 3 comprises two input RFI1 and RFI2 terminals and two output terminals RFO1 and RFO2, intended to be coupled to the antenna or antennas according to the device in which it is mounted.
- the terminals RFI1 and RFI2 are coupled to a reception circuit 34 comprising, in addition to amplification circuits of the received signals, a demodulator of these received signals.
- the circuit 34 supplies one or more demodulated signals Rx to the digital core 32.
- the terminals RFO1 and RFO2 receive radiofrequency signals of a transmission circuit 4 which modulates a radio frequency carrier f as a function of Tx data that it receives from the digital core 32.
- the circuit 4 comprises amplifiers (drivers) amplifying the signals to be transmitted.
- the other usual circuits of the controller 3 and the power signals of the different circuits are not represented in FIG. figure 2 .
- the RFO1 and RFO2 terminals transmit energy and data to a device in card mode. It may be an active charge modulation device or a passive charge modulation device.
- the RFI1 and RFI2 terminals receive data from the device in card mode.
- the RFI1 and RFI2 terminals are used to retrieve the clock from the reader's carrier and the data transmitted by it.
- the terminals RFO1 and RFO2 allow to transmit data in the card-to-reader direction by active charge modulation.
- the controller 3 can be mounted in a device either with these two terminals RFO1 and RFO2 coupled to an antenna to be attacked by differential signals (the signals being in phase opposition), or to two antennas driven by non-differential signals.
- the figure 3 represents, very schematically and in block form, an embodiment of an amplification circuit 4 and its connection to terminals RFO1 and RFO2.
- the emission amplification circuit 4 in the form of two groups A and B each comprising the same number N (at least two) of elementary amplifiers A (i), respectively B (i), (i ranging from 1 to N).
- the N elementary amplifiers of each group are of different weights, that is to say that the N amplifiers of one group each have a different resistance, and therefore each provide a different power.
- a binary weighting is provided, i.e., the resistance of an amplifier of rank i represents twice the resistance of the amplifier of rank i-1 and half of the resistance of the amplifier. amplifier of rank i + 1. In other words, the lower the rank i of the amplifier, the more it contributes to high power in the program.
- each terminal of the antenna receives the same power from the terminal RFO1 and the terminal RFO2, in practice signals of the same amplitude but in phase opposition. Therefore, it is necessary that the number of elementary amplifiers coupled to each antenna is the same and that each group has the same distribution of elementary powers. This is why we use an even number 2N amplifiers in total and that the two groups A and B are identical in terms of weight distribution of different elementary amplifiers they include. In the example of the figure 3 , the number N is also even but it could alternatively be odd.
- the outputs of N amplifiers A (i) of group A are interconnected to a pad PAD1.
- the outputs of the N Group B amplifiers B (i) are interconnected by subsets.
- one-half interconnection is provided (N being even), but the distribution of the amplifiers between the two subsets may be different.
- each subset has amplifiers of successive ranks so that one subset groups the most powerful amplifiers of the group while the other groups the least powerful amplifiers of the group.
- Such a configuration makes it possible to use a transmission (or amplification) circuit 4 either for a mounting in which the terminals RFO1 and RFO2 are coupled to two terminals of an (differential) antenna receiving amplifiers of the circuit 4 a signal differential, either for a mounting in which the terminals RFO1 and RFO2 are coupled to a terminal of a different non-differential or frame (single-ended or frame) antenna, the other terminal of which is connected, preferably connected, to ground .
- the amplifier operates either with terminals RFO1 and RFO2 providing different amplification gains, or with terminals providing the same amplification gain (ratio 1) on the two terminals RFO1 and RFO2.
- the pad PAD1 is soldered to the terminal RFO1 and the pads PAD2 and PAD3 are soldered to the terminal RFO2.
- each terminal receives the same power.
- the pads PAD1 and PAD2 can be connected to the RFO1 terminal and connect the pad PAD3 to the terminal RFO2.
- the relatively small antenna intended for the card mode which needs to receive only a relatively low power for the transmission in active charge modulation, is powered by the less powerful amplifiers of the group B while that the larger antenna intended for the reader mode, for which a greater power is desired, exploits not only all the amplifiers of group A but also the most powerful amplifiers of group B.
- the inputs of the amplifiers A (i) and B (i) are generally individually controlled by signals coming from an input stage 42 (INPUT STAGE) of the circuit 4 receiving the signals Tx to be transmitted and the carrier f.
- INPUT STAGE input stage 42
- the input stage 42 includes a selector interconnecting the inputs of the amplifiers B (1) to B (N / 2) either with the inputs of the amplifiers A (i) of the group A, or with the inputs of the amplifiers B (N / 2 + 1) to B (N).
- terminals RFO1 and RFO2 (representing input terminals of one or two impedance matching circuits between the controller 3 and the antenna or antennas as appropriate).
- resistive ratios or power ratios
- an equivalent model of differential mode and non-differential mode operation is used to determine the impact of the elementary amplifier resistors.
- a structure of the type represented by figure 3 with groups A and B of eight amplifiers each (N 8), each amplifier or amplification segment having a series resistance double compared to the previous amplifier (binary weighted).
- resistances of approximate approximate values of 1.4 ohms, 2.8 ohms, 5.4 ohms, 11 ohms, 21 ohms, 41 ohms, 82 ohms and 162 ohms when all amplifiers in a group are used, can consider that the equivalent resistance of the group is approximately equal to half of the lowest resistance, about 0.7 ohms.
- it does not need such power.
- the number of amplifiers assigned to the card mode that is to say, coupled to the terminal RFO2.
- the strongest amplifiers (B (1) to B (N / 2)) can be assigned to the drive mode by being coupled to the RFO1 terminal, further reducing the series resistance.
- the equivalent resistance of the RFO1 channel is approximately 11 ohms (half of the B (5) amplifier series resistance) and that of the RF02 channel is approximately 0.4 ohms, thanks to the contribution of amplifier B (1).
- the figure 4 represents, very schematically and in block form, an example of connection of an NFC controller 3 in a device with two antennas LR and LC respectively dedicated to the reader mode and the card mode.
- Each antenna LR, LC is associated with an impedance matching circuit 6R, 6C (MC) connecting it to the controller 3. More precisely, a first terminal 61R of the antenna LR is connected by the matching circuit 6R impedance, terminals RFI1 and RFO1, a second terminal 63R of the antenna LR being connected, preferably connected to the ground M. A first terminal 61C of the antenna LC is connected by the adaptation circuit 6C impedance, at terminals RF02 and RFI2, a second terminal 63C of the antenna LC being connected, preferably connected, to the ground M.
- figure 4 take the example of the figure 3 wherein the group B is halved into two subsets, the strongest elementary amplifiers being coupled to the RFO1 terminal.
- the terminal RFO1 is thus connected, preferably connected, to the terminals or pads PAD1 and PAD2 of the controller 3 while the terminal RFO2 is connected, preferably connected, to the terminal or pad PAD3 of the controller 3.
- the figure 4 also illustrates examples of impedance matching (MC) circuits 6R and 6C showing their similar structures.
- Each circuit 6R, 6C comprises a capacitor Cp in parallel on the corresponding antenna, that is to say connected, preferably connected, to the terminals 61R, respectively 61C, and 63R, respectively 63C.
- the terminals 61R and 63R, respectively 61C and 63C are each connected, by a capacitor Cs, to a common node 65R, respectively 65C.
- the node 65R, respectively 65C is connected by an inductive element Ls to the terminal RFO1, respectively RFO2, and by a resistive element Rs to the terminal RFI1, respectively RFI2.
- the operation of the impedance matching circuit is in itself usual.
- the figure 5 represents, in a very schematic way and in block form, an example of connection of an NFC controller 3 in a device to a differential antenna L.
- the antenna L is associated with an impedance matching circuit (MC) connecting it to the controller 3. More precisely, a first terminal 61 of the antenna L is connected by the circuit 6 to the terminals RFI1 and RFO1 and a second terminal 63 of the antenna L is connected by the circuit 6 to the terminals RF02 and RFI2.
- the terminal RFO1 is connected, preferably connected, to the terminal or pad PAD1 of the controller 3 while the terminal RFO2 is connected, preferably connected to the terminals or pads PAD2 and PAD3 of the controller 3.
- the figure 5 also illustrates an example of matching circuit 6 (MC) showing its similar structure on each differential path.
- the circuit 6 has a capacitance Cp in parallel on the antenna 6, that is to say connected, preferably connected, to the terminals 61 and 63.
- the terminals 61 and 63 are each connected, by a capacitor Cs, to a node 651, respectively 652.
- Each node 651, 652 is connected by an inductive element Ls to the terminal RFO1, respectively RFO2, and by a resistive element Rs to the RFI1 terminal, respectively RFI2.
- the nodes 651 and 652 are each connected, by a capacitance Cemi, to the ground M.
- the operation of the impedance matching circuit is again in itself usual.
- connection of the pads PAD1, PAD2 and PAD3 to the terminals RFO1 and RFO2 is carried out during manufacture, for example when packaging (packaging) the NFC controller. Indeed, depending on the NFC device to which the controller 3 is intended, it is known at that time whether it is intended to operate in differential or non-differential mode. In a variant, this connection is made during the assembly of the circuits of the NFC device. However, this connection is final and is therefore performed by welding. Indeed, one of the objectives is to reduce the clutter and thus to avoid a switch.
- the figure 6 represents an embodiment of an amplification circuit with several elementary amplifiers.
- the figure 6 represents an example of amplifier 8 that can constitute the group A or B of elementary amplifiers of the figure 3 .
- a class D amplifier is assumed in which each elementary amplifier (i), i being between 1 and N, comprises two MOS transistors Mp (i) and Mn (i) in series between two terminals 82 and 84 d. application of a positive voltage Vdd referenced to the ground M (terminal 84). All the elementary amplifiers (i) are in parallel between the terminals 82 and 84.
- the gates of each transistor of each elementary amplifier (i) are interconnected to a control terminal Ctrl (i) connected to the input stage (42). , figure 3 ).
- the midpoint of the series association of the transistors Mp (i) and Mn (i) of each elementary amplifier (i) is connected, preferably connected, to the output pad PAD corresponding to the group A or the group half-group B to which it belongs.
- An advantage of the embodiments described is that they make it possible to propose an NFC controller compatible with two different types of operation from the point of view of its connection to the antenna or antennas, without requiring a transformer with a change of mode or of a switch. antenna.
- An advantage of the embodiments described is that they therefore reduce the size of the transmission circuits of an NFC device.
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